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BBC’s 3D documentary explorer is now up and running!

BBC is currently broadcasting its series about the history and consequences of the web. The original title “Digital Revolution” – which was opened to crowd sourcing – has finally become “Virtual Revolution” (the crowds were not very inspired, after all). It is currently downloadable on  BBC iPlayer – or broadcast  on Saturdays on BBC2. For [...]

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Storytelling as metaphysics

Could linear Aristotelian narrative be seen as a metaphysical system? And if yes, what sort of new metaphysic are we constructing when we experiment with non linear narratives in digital documentaries? The following extract from an interview that artist Tobias Hülswitt did with Ray Kurzwiel in 2008 made me think a lot… Here is the [...]

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Sputnik Observatory

I am a big fan of new media artist/designer Jonathan Harris. He is the mind behind we feel fine,  time capsules and the whale hunt (all accessible though his website). But I have just discovered his latest work: Sputnik. I shall enter Sputnik in the archive as soon as I have some time to play [...]

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Documentary Now!- the afterthoughts

I have a great news for you:  interactive documentary is starting to be a buzz word…
Like last year Documentary Now! was a nice two days conference where a mixture of academic, PhD students and documentary makers exchanged their views on the new directions and evolution of the documentary world.  It had the same informal and [...]

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Please comment on my article

If you have been reading my blog for a wile you probably know that lately I have been concentrating on the notion of “open source documentary”. I knew that film makers such as Brett Gaylor had been promoting RIP: a remix manifesto as an “open source documentary”, but when I read that BBC2 was starting [...]

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This website is both an archive and a discussion forum for those interested in Interactive Documentaries. It also documents my journey while doing a PhD. Feel free to browse and comment, but especially... DO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ARCHIVE!

Latest addition to the Interactive Documentary Archive

Filmmaker-in-Residence

2007
By: Katerina Cizek and the National Film Board of Canada
Project type: Web
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PhD Mosaic

P1000990Kinetica art fair 2010DeLanda & DeleuzeDecode exhibition at the V&A
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The rethorics of PhD writing

Thursday, 4 February 2010

I am reading DeLanda and Deleuze because I’ll might use the idea of “assemblages” to analyse interactive documentaries. I know that go to PhD Blog